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NYC Subway Cell Service, No Cell-Related Cancer
Luke PiWalker wrote to mention a CNN article discussing a bid process for offering cell phone service to NYC subway stations. The contract is only to wire up stations; moving trains will not have service. Those New Yorkers will also be safe from their phones, as the BBC reports on a study indicating cell phones don't cause cancer. From that article, submitted to us by Dan Hope: "She acknowledged that there appeared to be an increased risk among brain cancer sufferers on the side of the head where they held the phone. The team, however, did not put this down to a causal link, because almost exactly the same decreased risk was seen on the other side of the head, leaving no overall increase risk of tumours for mobile phone users. Instead, they blamed biased reporting from brain tumour sufferers who knew what side of the head their tumours were on."
Since terrorists have shown they like to bomb the subway systems (see Madrid, London), and since they have shown they like to use cell phones as trigger points for their bombs (see Madrid), isn't putting cell phone service in the New York City subway system giving potential terrorists a new weapon to use? Now instead of having to carry a backpack bomb and then die in the blast themselves, they can rig up a cell phone detonator and be safe when the bomb goes off.
Cell phones suck. Socially and Physically. Here's to your tumors, your war tax on cell phone use and my Cell Phone Jammer.
I'm sure that cell phones cause tumours; whether they're cancerous or not may depend on other factors. Probably most are not because my guess is that the radio waves cook the cells, which would preclude new cell growth.
Now it's been accepted in Russia since the 50's or so that radio energy causes organ tumours and as a result they have more stringent laws about how close residences can be to high tension lines.
HOWEVER, the biggest problem with that fact is that *it wasn't discovered via grants to American researchers.* Unfortunately, there is GREAT resistance now to study this issue because it might kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Sad to say, my feeling is that half of the teens and pre-teens that presently have a cell wired to their head will probably be dead before they're 30. And the denial will still continue then!
I wonder how many millions of dollars your government spent on that...
And in Communist Canada, cellphones call YOU.
You're a fucking idiot. If you're so concerned that every piece of technology will enable criminals, how about you move off into the woods and shut the fuck up yourself.